Service Description

Zimbra is a new Collaboration software package that the University recently purchased.  Faculty and staff are currently being moved to Zimbra. Later this year, students will start using Zimbra also. Zimbra includes several components:

• Mail
• Address books including a Global Address List (GAL) which is a list of all students, staff and faculty at the university
• Calendars
• Task Lists
• Chat

Users have the option of sharing mail folders, address books, tasks, and calendars.  The Zimbra Collaboration Suite includes a web based client program (Zimbra Web Client) accessible to anyone with a web browser and internet access.

Mail clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, Mac Mail, PDAs) can be configured for Zimbra.

Classes

The Computing Center will be conducting one hour training sessions on the Zimbra Web Client every Monday and Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm in Lee Hall Room 213 (except for May 18, June 15, June 22, June 29, July 13, July 20, July 27).  In particular, the sessions will demonstrate setting up calendars, creating events and appointments, and sharing calendars.  There will also be time for questions and discussion of other Zimbra topics.

Class prerequisite: Active Zimbra account.  This is a hands-on laboratory class that requires active participation in activities.

Contact Evelyn Bullard for more information or to sign up for a session.

Documentation

• Zimbra User Documentation
• Zimbra Migration Documentation

Current Zimbra Version

• 5.0.23

Known Issues

• Safari 4 for Mac is not fully compatible with Zimbra.  The current workaround is to use Firefox or Chrome.

How do we charge?

There is no charge for faculty, staff, and students.

Last update:  07/12/2010